Kimai

Kimai is a free and open-source time tracking platform built for freelancers, agencies, and businesses that need a reliable way to log billable hours, manage client projects, and generate accurate invoices. As a self-hosted alternative to Toggl, Harvest, and Clockify, Kimai gives you complete ownership of your time data without per-user subscription fees. With a clean, modern web interface and support for multiple users, clients, and projects, Kimai scales from solo freelancers tracking their own hours to larger teams managing complex billing across dozens of clients.

Common Use Cases

Freelancers use Kimai to track billable hours across multiple clients and projects, generating detailed reports and invoices at the end of each billing period without relying on third-party SaaS platforms. Agencies deploy Kimai as a shared time tracking hub where team members log hours against client projects, enabling project managers to monitor budgets, track utilization, and generate client-facing reports. Small businesses use Kimai for internal time management — tracking how employee hours are distributed across departments, tasks, and cost centers for accurate payroll and project costing. Consultants and contractors use the activity tagging system to categorize time entries by type of work, making it easy to break down invoices and demonstrate value delivered to clients.

Key Features

• Clean web interface for starting, stopping, and logging time entries
• Multi-user support with role-based permissions for teams of any size
• Project and client management with budget tracking and rate configuration
• Detailed reporting with filters by user, project, client, and date range
• Invoice generation directly from tracked time entries
• Activity tagging for categorizing work types across projects
• REST API for integrations with external tools and workflows
• Plugin system for extending functionality
• Import and export support for CSV and other formats
• Mobile-friendly interface for logging time on the go

Why deploy Kimai on Hostinger VPS

Deploying Kimai on a Hostinger VPS eliminates per-user subscription costs that make SaaS time tracking tools expensive as teams grow. With full data ownership, your time records, client data, and billing information stay on infrastructure you control — important for businesses with confidentiality requirements or data residency concerns. Hostinger VPS provides the reliable uptime needed for a time tracking tool that team members depend on daily, with MySQL ensuring durable storage of all time entries and project data. Traefik handles HTTPS automatically, so your Kimai instance is securely accessible from any device without manual SSL configuration.